Gene Sharp worries about the civil war dynamic being created by the Free Syrian Army:
[S]oldiers who are shot at will almost always shoot back. Defecting Syrian soldiers who fire their weapons at the regime’s soldiers therefore are not weakening the regime. Tragically, however unintentionally, they are actually helping the Assad regime to retain the army for repression. The regime’s reliable army could then wipe out the weaker rebel soldiers and the Assad regime would be preserved at least a bit longer.
Navi Pillay, the UN high commissioner for human rights, notes [NYT] the same problem and calls for international intervention. Richard Gowan isn't persuaded by some of the strategies for intervention being bandied about. Here's a huge rally from today in Idlib (via EA):
And here's a courageous video from Homs of Syrians reclaiming a body while under threat from snipers:
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